I Will Never Let You Go

🚨 Note: It's been a long time since this project was built, and the underlying technologies have changed. A lot. With the goal of keeping the spirit of this project alive, I've created a modern version, mostly by patching and noodling my way through already minified code. As a result, I Will Never Let You Go works on modern devices, like mobile, but this repo is no longer reflective of the underlying code. You can find the Frankenstein's monster that is currently deployed here.

An interactive WebGL music video.

You can watch it here.

You can read about how it was made here.

You can check out my other music here.

Getting started

First up, install the dependencies and JSPM:

npm install
./node_modules/.bin/jspm install

Imgur support

You'll need to add your own Imgur credentials, which you can add to /credentials-imgur.js. You can get the id and secret from the Imgur API by registering an application.

The album ID and hash is returned when created, and you can do so by running gulp imgur:create. You'll need to have added your ID and secret to /credentials-imgur.js from the Imgur API first though.

module.exports = {
  clientId: "",
  clientSecret: "",
  album: {
    id: "",
    hash: ""
  }
}

Assets

You'll need the following media files:

/media/loop.mp4
/media/loop-square.mp4
/media/video.mp4
/media/video-square.mp4

You can curl them from here:

curl -o src/media/loop.mp4 http://iwillneverletyougo.wearebrightly.com.s3.amazonaws.com/media/loop.mp4
curl -o src/media/loop-square.mp4 http://iwillneverletyougo.wearebrightly.com.s3.amazonaws.com/media/loop-square.mp4
curl -o src/media/video.mp4 http://iwillneverletyougo.wearebrightly.com.s3.amazonaws.com/media/video.mp4
curl -o src/media/video-square.mp4 http://iwillneverletyougo.wearebrightly.com.s3.amazonaws.com/media/video-square.mp4

Fire it up

Fire up the development server with npm run dev and check it out on http://localhost:8888/

Build

Output to /dist with npm run build. Host it wherever!

Thanks

Thanks to Glen Maddern for the advice, motivation and endless ideas. Superhero.